Bosniak

Based on around 95 per cent of votes counted, the three members of Bosnia's State Presidency will Bakir Izetbegovic - for the Bosniaks, Dragan Covic - for the Croats, and Mladen Ivanic - for the Serbs.

Izetbegovic, the existing Bosniak member, standing for the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, SDA, won about 228,000 votes, some 40,000 more than his main rival, Fahrudin Radoncic.

Bosnian Central Electoral Commission announced on Monday that according to preliminary results from the previous day's polls, the Bosniak member of the tripartite presidency will be Bakir Izetbegovic of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, while the Croat member will be Dragan Covic of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.

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Former Bosniak fighters Semir Alukic and Fikret Hirkic were convicted of killing two Serb civilians and attempting to murder two others near Prijedor in 1992.

Esad Dzudzevic, acting head of the Bosniak National Council, BNV, in Serbia, said the council will urge members of the Bosniak [Muslim] community in Serbia to remove Serbian-sounding endings to their last names, such as "vic" and "ic".

Nebojsa Radmanovic, the Serbian member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Serbia's newly appointed Prime Minister will visit Sarajevo at the invitation of the head of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vjekoslav Bevanda.

Radmanovic said the Serbian leader would be welcome in Bosnia, and that his visit should not be marked by controversy.

Izetbegović invites Vučić to Sarajevo conference

SARAJEVO -- Bosnian Presidency Bakir Izetbegović told Tanjug on Monday that he has already invited Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić to participate in a Sarajevo conference.

The 5th international investment conference Sarajevo Business Forum will take place on May 14 and 15.

SARAJEVO - Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Presidency Bakir Izetbegovic told Tanjug on Monday that he has already invited Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic to participate in the 5th international investment conference Sarajevo Business Forum, set to take place on May 14-15 in Sarajevo.

At the trial of two Bosniak fighters for the torture, beatings and sexual abuse of prisoners on Mount Igman in 1993, a witness said one defendant behaved “abnormally” because of wartime stress.